Michael Harloe
Biographic Data
| ID | 238089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Harloe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Harloe |
| SIGNATURE | HARLOE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Marxism, The State and The Urban Question: Critical Notes on Two Recent French Theories
Since the late 1960s there has been a rapid growth of urban and regional studies with important contributions from economists, geographers, political scientists, sociologists and others ( Anderson, J., 1975 ; Eversley, 1975 ). A prominent place has been taken by new Marxist analyses which have principally been developed in North America and Western Europe (although there are strong links between some of this work and theories of dependent develop…
Chris Pickvance (1944–2021)
Chris Pickvance, who has died after a short illness at the age of 77, played a pivotal role in the establishment of today's global network of urban and regional research through the medium of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) and the International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Urban and Regional Development (RC21). His contribution over many years was both an intellectual and an org…
What Place For The Region? Reflections on the Regional Question and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
In our introduction to this Debates & Developments forum, ‘What place for the Region?’, we discuss why the founders of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) regarded the regional question as having the same importance as the urban question, and how the region has remained a significant focus during the journal's subsequent development. We then explore some of the conceptual challenges in defining and investigating regio…
The Affluent Society Revisited
Manchester's Bust Regime
This essay updates the once vibrant political economy literature on Manchester and argues that good governance, as well as good fortune, underpinned an uneven but strong urban-regional renaissance from the late 1980s through the economic boom period leading up to the financial crisis. After establishing the case for making this claim, it goes on to consider the extent to which Manchester and its broader city-region has proven resilient in the fac…
Cities after Socialism: Urban and Regional Change and Conflict in Post-Socialist Societies
Universities, Localities and Regional Development: The Emergence of the 'Mode 2' University
There has long been a tension between the roles of the university in servicing the needs of sub-national economies and civil societies, those of the national state and those of learning and the pursuit of knowledge in an abstract sense. The position in liberal democracies through much of the twentieth century can be accurately characterized by a significant degree of separation and segregation between the university, the state and the market. Rec…
Council Housing and Culture. The History of a Social Experiment, Alison Ravetz
Le nouveau gouvernement métropolitain de Londres: Vers la terre promise
In 2000, a new metropolitan government was set up in London, headed by a mayor elected by direct universal suffrage and a local assembly. These new institutions, created to focus on issues concerning competition and the city’s social cohesion, were given broad competencies while having little means to exercise them efficiently. Moreover, numerous difficulties have been encountered : points of friction with the Boroughs, which have competencies in…
Social Justice and the City: The New 'Liberal Formulation
INTRODUCTION: Pregnancy is a crucial period which ultimately directly impacts two individuals health and wellbeing. Within the UK, a standardised pattern of care is established with collaborations across disciplines to the benefit of women and babies. During the COVID19 pandemic, this pattern of care was disrupted to align with protective protocols which until now, has not been formally reported. METHODS: A retrospective, mixed methods study of U…
Ijurr: Looking Back Twenty-One Years Later
China focus
Housing policy and rented housing in Europe
Cities After Socialism: Urban and Regional Change and Conflict in Post‐Socialist Societies
Cities in the Transition
Urban Theory: Articulating the Modern With the Postmodern
Social Segregation in French Metropolitan Housing Markets: The Cases of Paris and Lille
Swindon: The legacy of a railway town
The People's Home? Social Rented Housing in Europe and America
The People's Home?: Social Rented Housing in Europe & America
Reprise et récession dans les villes internationales: Londres et New-York à l'ère contemporaine
Social housing—past, present and future
Over the past decade in Western Europe there has been a growth of unmet low‐income housing needs. There are now as many as 3–5 million homeless people in the EC countries and many more who are paying more than they can afford for poor quality accommodation (Quilliot, 1992, p. 12). In the 1970s it seemed as if the acute post‐war shortages of low‐income housing had finally been overcome and mass programmes of social rented housing had played a key …
Urban sociology, capitalism and modernity
Community Economic Development: Policy Formation in the US and UK
Part 1 The potential for cross-national learning: local economic policy formation - setting an agenda for development research, David Fasenfest cross-national comparisons of urban economic programs - is policy transfer possible, H. Wolman. Part 2 Policy formation - what kind and for whom: the concept of local economic development policy - some fundamental questions, K. Cox turning the tide? the impact of urban and regional regeneration initiative…
Cities: Beyond the Fragments
Rhetorical barriers to understanding housing provision: What the ‘provision thesis’ is and is not
This paper reviews some recent critiques of the concept of ‘structures of housing provision’ (SHP) and attempts to clarify the nature and status of this concept. It argues that SHP is not a ‘theory of housing’, nor does it imply a production‐centred approach to housing analysis. Rather, SHP is a metatheoretical concept or analytical framework which, together with other theories, may be of use in the examination of particular aspects of housing de…
Sector and class: A Critical Comment
Comparative Housing Research
The paper reviews major examples of comparative housing research which have been published in the last twenty years and suggests that the dominant approach - grounded in pluralism and convergence theory - which they exhibit is inadequate. Future studies need to be both more detailed and wider in scope, examining the dynamic of the interrelations between the institutions and the social forces involved in the provision of housing. Such a perspectiv…
Manchester's Bust Regime
This essay updates the once vibrant political economy literature on Manchester and argues that good governance, as well as good fortune, underpinned an uneven but strong urban-regional renaissance from the late 1980s through the economic boom period leading up to the financial crisis. After establishing the case for making this claim, it goes on to consider the extent to which Manchester and its broader city-region has proven resilient in the fac…
The Myth of the North American City. Continentalism Challenged
On comparing American and Canadian cities Values and culture: a context for comparing American and Canadian cities Social and demographic structures in Canada and the United States Economic organization and economic institutions in Canada and the United States: the fuel for urban growth and change Political structure, culture and institutions in Canada and the United States Urban form and institutions in Canada and the United States Urban form an…
Social Justice and the City: The New 'Liberal Formulation
INTRODUCTION: Pregnancy is a crucial period which ultimately directly impacts two individuals health and wellbeing. Within the UK, a standardised pattern of care is established with collaborations across disciplines to the benefit of women and babies. During the COVID19 pandemic, this pattern of care was disrupted to align with protective protocols which until now, has not been formally reported. METHODS: A retrospective, mixed methods study of U…
Private Rented Housing: Its Current Role
In this article, the first of two, the recent developments and current situation in the private rented sector are examined. Four roles for the sector are identified: housing those who traditionally lived in the sector, housing the young and mobile, providing accommodation with employment and acting as a tenure of last resort for those unable to find accommodation in the majority tenures. The types of household to be found in each sub-sector are d…
Universities, Localities and Regional Development: The Emergence of the 'Mode 2' University
There has long been a tension between the roles of the university in servicing the needs of sub-national economies and civil societies, those of the national state and those of learning and the pursuit of knowledge in an abstract sense. The position in liberal democracies through much of the twentieth century can be accurately characterized by a significant degree of separation and segregation between the university, the state and the market. Rec…
The Restructuring of Housing Provision in Britain and the Netherlands
This paper is an examination of the impact of recent economic and political changes in the Netherlands and Britain on housing markets and policies in these two countries. Some of the key features of the current housing situation are outlined, with a focus on the growing problems of housing costs and accessibility and the policy and market responses to these problems. Some of the distinctive features of the social relations of housing provision in…
Social housing—past, present and future
Over the past decade in Western Europe there has been a growth of unmet low‐income housing needs. There are now as many as 3–5 million homeless people in the EC countries and many more who are paying more than they can afford for poor quality accommodation (Quilliot, 1992, p. 12). In the 1970s it seemed as if the acute post‐war shortages of low‐income housing had finally been overcome and mass programmes of social rented housing had played a key …
Housing inequality and social structure in London
This paper analyses the housing circumstances of Londoners in relation to their social characteristics, drawing on the 1986–87 Survey of Londoners' Living Standards and referring to other recent data. It examines the recent claim that there is no inner‐city housing problem, using small‐area data. It concludes that problems of affordability and poor housing affect a wide range of the population, not just the poor
Prospects and Strategies for Housing in the Private Rented Sector
This second article examines the future of the private rented sector in terms of the types of household that will continue to demand accommodation, the types of landlord that will be prepared to continue to let and the match between the requirements of the two groups. It is predicted that, under present policies, the sector will continue to decline but that the problems that will arise will come more from the mismatch between demand and supply th…
New Perspectives in Urban Change and Conflict
Le nouveau gouvernement métropolitain de Londres: Vers la terre promise
In 2000, a new metropolitan government was set up in London, headed by a mayor elected by direct universal suffrage and a local assembly. These new institutions, created to focus on issues concerning competition and the city’s social cohesion, were given broad competencies while having little means to exercise them efficiently. Moreover, numerous difficulties have been encountered : points of friction with the Boroughs, which have competencies in…
Housing and Social Change in Europe and the USA
The city and the grassroots a cross-cultural theory of urban social movements
History, politics and the local state
Book reviewed in this article: Cockburn, C. 1977: The local state. Management of cities and people . Hennock, E. P. 1973: Fit and proper persons. Ideal and realrty in nineteenth century government . Newton, K. 1976: Second city politics. Democratic processes and decision‐making in Birmingham
New Perspectives in Urban Change and Conflict
Shorter Notices
The city and the grassroots a cross-cultural theory of urban social movements
City, Class and Capital: New Developments in the Political Economy of Cities and Regions
Sector and class: A Critical Comment
City, Class and Capital: New Developments in the Political Economy of Cities and Regions
Comparative Housing Research
The paper reviews major examples of comparative housing research which have been published in the last twenty years and suggests that the dominant approach - grounded in pluralism and convergence theory - which they exhibit is inadequate. Future studies need to be both more detailed and wider in scope, examining the dynamic of the interrelations between the institutions and the social forces involved in the provision of housing. Such a perspectiv…
Unfairly structured cities
Cities in transformation
Divisions of labour
The Restructuring of Housing Provision in Britain and the Netherlands
This paper is an examination of the impact of recent economic and political changes in the Netherlands and Britain on housing markets and policies in these two countries. Some of the key features of the current housing situation are outlined, with a focus on the growing problems of housing costs and accessibility and the policy and market responses to these problems. Some of the distinctive features of the social relations of housing provision in…
Prospects and Strategies for Housing in the Private Rented Sector
This second article examines the future of the private rented sector in terms of the types of household that will continue to demand accommodation, the types of landlord that will be prepared to continue to let and the match between the requirements of the two groups. It is predicted that, under present policies, the sector will continue to decline but that the problems that will arise will come more from the mismatch between demand and supply th…
Private Rented Housing: Its Current Role
In this article, the first of two, the recent developments and current situation in the private rented sector are examined. Four roles for the sector are identified: housing those who traditionally lived in the sector, housing the young and mobile, providing accommodation with employment and acting as a tenure of last resort for those unable to find accommodation in the majority tenures. The types of household to be found in each sub-sector are d…
Swindon: A suitable place for expansion
(1987). Swindon: A suitable place for expansion. Planning Practice & Research: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 17-20
The movement for housing reform in Germany and France, 1840–1914
The Myth of the North American City. Continentalism Challenged
On comparing American and Canadian cities Values and culture: a context for comparing American and Canadian cities Social and demographic structures in Canada and the United States Economic organization and economic institutions in Canada and the United States: the fuel for urban growth and change Political structure, culture and institutions in Canada and the United States Urban form and institutions in Canada and the United States Urban form an…
Housing policy and practice in Asia
Urbanisation in China: Town and country in a developing economy 1949–2000 AD
The Great War and the British People
Land policy: Problems and alternatives
Housing and Social Change in Europe and the USA
Rhetorical barriers to understanding housing provision: What the ‘provision thesis’ is and is not
This paper reviews some recent critiques of the concept of ‘structures of housing provision’ (SHP) and attempts to clarify the nature and status of this concept. It argues that SHP is not a ‘theory of housing’, nor does it imply a production‐centred approach to housing analysis. Rather, SHP is a metatheoretical concept or analytical framework which, together with other theories, may be of use in the examination of particular aspects of housing de…
Housing inequality and social structure in London
This paper analyses the housing circumstances of Londoners in relation to their social characteristics, drawing on the 1986–87 Survey of Londoners' Living Standards and referring to other recent data. It examines the recent claim that there is no inner‐city housing problem, using small‐area data. It concludes that problems of affordability and poor housing affect a wide range of the population, not just the poor
Locality Studies and the British Localities Project
Political science (29 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Economics (21 works) · Geography (17 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (16 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (13 works) · Economic geography (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Law (10 works)